Predicting the carcinogenicity of chemicals in humans from rodent bioassay data.

Regulatory agencies currently rely on rodent carcinogenicity bioassay data to predict whether or not a given chemical poses a carcinogenic threat to humans. We argue that it is always more useful to know a chemical's carcinogenic potency (with confidence limits) than to be able to say only qual...

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Main Authors: Goodman, G, Wilson, R
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 1991
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567942/